van sickle



(No Model.) I

G. VAN SIGKLE. I TONGUELESS OULTIVATOR. N0. 271,164.. Patented Jan. 23; 1883'.

W557i eases.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. VAN- SIGKLE, OF BURLINGTON, IOWA, ASQIGNOR TO J. H. BRAMHALL AND NOTT S. HAMMAGK, OF SAME PLACE.

TONGUELESS CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,164, dated January 23, 1883.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEO. W. VAN SIcKLE, of Burlington, of the county of Des Moines, in the State oflowa, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in DoubleArched Ton gueless Cultivators, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to improvements in double arched tongueless cultivators with metal frame-work,in which ametallic spring is attached at one end to the upright of the axle framework and at the other end to the under prong of the plow-beam. I attain these objects bythe mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a side view of the cultivator as it appears with the wheel removed on the one side and the plows on the other side.

Similar letters refer to similar parts.

My improvement consists in an attachment to a double arched tongueless cultivator, in which the crossbar A is a fiat bar of metal firmly attached to axle B in a horizontal posi- Lion and at right angles with the same. i The outer edge of the barA is turned up and provided with two braces, c and 0, one on each side of the axle, having perforations d and (1', through which the arches e and e pass.

Bar A is further provided on each side of axle B with the sockets f and f, to act as receptacles for'the corresponding ends of the arches e and 6, so as to enable the arches to turn in these sockets.

To cross-bar A there is further attached, by

bolt or otherwise, an upright, X, to the top of which spring R, of suitable material and of convenient shape and size, is attached, which passes to the front over arch c, then turns around downward, passes under arch e, and on further also under arch e, (or it may pass over e,) turnsagain downward and under axle B, and is fastened to the lower prong, K, of plow-beam S.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In a double arched tongueless cultivator, the cross-bar A, provided with braces c and c, and the arches e and c, in combination with the upright X and spring R, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a double arched tongueless cultivator, the cross-bar A, providedwith braces c and c, the arches e and e, the upright X, and spring R, in combination with the axle B, snbstan-.

tially as and for the purpose described.

GEO. W. VAN SICKLE.

Witnesses: H. O. HADLEY, Notr'r S. HAMMAGK. 

